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I think I’m being misinterpreted, which is on me for being unclear. To address a sibling commenter first: no, I don’t think any mention of covid is a political statement, that’d be…

please don’t mistake me for some kind of anti-vaccine anti-mask zealot. Having diligently participated in all the responsible social and personal anti-covid measures, my take on th…

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Just so we’re clear and you can be on record with it: you support fascism?

A looming Christofascist dictatorship is not what I’d consider a minor political realignment, but potato potato, I guess

Would you accept a denial? Seems like you’re just spoiling for a fight.

No comment re: recommendations on building, but if you're interested, alternative terminology often includes corporate intel / intelligence.

The dual posting it’s important but does not mark Nakasone as uniquely talented — the post is always served by the current director of the NSA.

For the interested, Tetlock wrote a book called 'Superforecasting', and also set up a company using his research to utilize the prowess of those forecasters ( https://goodjudgment.…

Sometimes I feel like I'm being caught in a pincer maneuver by contemporary US society where the far right is wielding increasingly concerning amounts of governmental power to forc…

I understand that the team at BlueSky is tiny and that they were firstly prioritizing getting a stable, core featureset out, but I firmly believe that keeping posts private to non …

In my understanding feral is a domesticated creature that has found it self adapting back to the wild, while a wild creature was never domesticated at all. How can pigeons be feral…

I had an ATT unlimited data plan, grandfathered from way back in 2004 or something. It was wonderful while cellular data was still only available in limited amounts. I only finally…

I’d kill for a phone with proper music control hardware buttons. I miss my iPod, and being able to control it, precisely, from my pocket.

Pi Hole is nice, I run it as an add-on in my router's OpenWRT install. But it's not useful for my AppleTV.

Absolutely my experience with Starbucks. Their default Pike Roast drip coffee is black as pitch and tastes like pure carbon. It could very well act as a smelling salt to snap one o…

What does it matter what they say. There are no consequences to lying, so the only correct move is to assume they are.

> This result exceeds the performance promised by the manufacturers If only this could be said of more companies products.

A temporary solution lasting until the AI fits in our AI-glasses or stealth headphones.

fwiw I like the windows key. Win-e for explorer Win-x for system commands Win-r for run Win-v for advanced paste and emoji search Win-tab is trash though, I autohotkey it away on e…

The correct solution here is to give credit for the problem to acknowledge genuine clever problem solving, and then offer extra credit for doing it the pedagogical way.

Never would I ever have come up with using logarithms. But I am also a math idiot. My solution used recursion.

> The panel did not identify evidence related to individuals younger than age 50 years. For anyone else who was wondering why they don't recommend it to healthy people below 50.

> Maps, Android, Earth, Translate, I guess? This is fair, I shouldn't have omitted them. They do level the ratio of launches to shutdowns a bit. They slipped my mind because I pers…

I'm of two minds on Google's MO on products. On one hand, I appreciate that they try all sorts of things and seem to have almost no hesitation with launching some things which are …